Essays in Idleness: Enjoying Classical Literature Through Art (Suntory Museum of Art)

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Was held at the Suntory Museum of Art, exhibition collected literature, painting surrounding Essays in Idleness.

At the entrance, Ogata Kenzan Shokado Akirano, and Umikita Tomoyuki, is, are decorated hanging scroll is drawn each, author of Essays in Idleness, a Buddhist priest Kenko.

At first glance, I do not think in a different figure at all, and depicts the same person. From the contents of the book called Essays in Idleness, each painter, depicts expected from the ambient, or as she imagined that, the priest Kenko image.

In this exhibition, a national treasure of the two were exhibited. One thing on the back of the scriptures 14th century, that Hoshaku through, I wrote a poem. Waka Kenko Hoshi has written two.

National treasure Another Honen picture transfer. So as not to think it is drawn in the 14th century, brilliant. Before Honen, Amitabha would appear, had on display, dramatic scene.

By Kaiho Yusetsu, the centerpiece of this exhibition, exhibition whole volume of Essays in Idleness picture scroll. The exhibition of using the space of nearly half of the venue.

Other, tailored to the beautiful picture, what was depicted in the text in the Essays in Idleness, many pictures were on display, but it was to picture the contents of all 244 stage, Essays in Idleness by this Kaiho Yusetsu that he only picture scroll.

Some of the Essays in Idleness, there is also a stage difficult to painting or stage, but short, as paintings independent, Kaiho Yusetsu is fully draw all, all of them. I represent well as a craftsman painting Umikita Tomoyuki, a prominent sense.

Corner of the last exhibition of the Kaiho Yusetsu, not related to the Essays in Idleness, various works.

Famous, such as folding screen picture Kenninji, Kaiho Yusetsu is, a child of Kaiho Yusho.  Piece folding screen painting, scrolls, Buddhist, and ink painting, of many genres is on display, the various arts picture is suggesting.

Then, in the center of Kyoto, from generation to generation as a painter, Kaiho family is that it continued to play an active part until the Edo period.